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🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Classic · Maya/Andean
Huaca Ventarron — 2,500 BCE oldest mural.
GR · Ancient city
Archaic to Byzantine (c.600 BCE – 14th c. CE harbour) · Corinthian / Classical / Hellenistic / Roman
Corinth Gulf western harbour — 600 m Canopus-style canal + Long Walls, now 2–3 m subsided northwest of Corinth.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Middle Bronze Age to Iron Age (2000–600 BCE) · Gileadite / Israelite / Ammonite
Tell el-Maqlub — Gilead in Ajloun Highlands, Jordan is a Middle Bronze Age to Iron Age (2000–600 BCE) tell attributed to Gileadite / Israelite / Ammonite.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Neolithic-Chalcolithic (c.6000-3500 BCE) · Kırklareli–Karanovo to Gumelnița-Karanovo VI
Toptepe — buried neolithic-chalcolithic tell/village at Kırklareli Province.
🇮🇹 Italy · Archaeological wonder
Claim 9600 BCE (Etna 500 ka volcano) · Pseudo Sicilian / Volcanology
Pseudoarchaeology – Schulten 1927 Tartessos–Sicily Aitna (Etna) Atlantis mirror misplaces Plato's island to Sicily Etna plain; Hausmann 1990s Sicilian Atlantis.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Ancient city
Bejucal is a Maya archaeological site in the Petén Department of Guatemala. It is located 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) northeast of El Zotz and was subservient to that city.
🇯🇵 Japan · Temple complex
Ishite-ji (石手寺) is a Shingon temple in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan. It is Temple 51 on the Shikoku 88 temple pilgrimage. Its name means Stone Hand Temple (石手寺).
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan · Archaeological wonder
The former city of Dehistan/Mashhad-i Misrian (Turkmen: Dehistan), now in the Balkan Region of western Turkmenistan, was a major economic center from the 10th to the 14th centuries CE.
🇨🇴 Colombia · Megalith
San Agustín Culture · San Agustín
San Agustín Archaeological Park in Huila Department, Colombia is a San Agustín Culture megalithic attributed to San Agustín culture. Inscribed UNESCO World Heritage Site (ID 744).
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient village
Pre-Pottery Neolithic (7000 BCE) · Jarmo-related
Matarrah — Jarmo Hinterland Village in Kirkuk Governorate, Iraq is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (7000 BCE) ancient-village attributed to Jarmo-related.
🇮🇳 India · Tell
Mature Harappan (2500–1900 BCE) · Harappan
Shikarpur — Kutch Harappan Port Mound in Gujarat, India is a Mature Harappan (2500–1900 BCE) tell attributed to Harappan. Coastal Harappan port mound with Harappan and Sorath ware at Gulf of Kutch.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Bronze Age · Cornish Bronze Age
Gunwalloe Hut Circles — Loe Bar in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Bronze Age ancient-village attributed to Cornish Bronze Age.
🇯🇵 Japan · Tumulus
Late Kofun (6th c. CE) · Yamato influenced Hizen
Karatsu megalithic chamber exposed by erosion, excavated 1900, late Kofun island type.
🇮🇳 India · Megalith
Iron Age (700–300 BCE) · Vidarbha megalithic
Mahurjhari — Vidarbha Megalithic Tombs in Maharashtra, India is a Iron Age (700–300 BCE) megalithic attributed to Vidarbha megalithic. Stone circles with capstone cists and horse bits at Mahurjhari.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient village
Early Mesolithic · Aegean Mesolithic
Early Mesolithic open-air village on Kythnos (c. 8800–8600 BCE), the earliest Holocene settlement in the Cyclades with stone-built floors, burials, imported Melian obsidian and marine fauna.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Cave
Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Ages (c.400,000 BP–1400 CE) · Acheulean → Mousterian → Neolithic (Fikirtepe) → Byzantine
Bosphorus Palaeolithic twin cave (400 ka) with Acheulean and Fikirtepe burials on Küçükçekmece.
🇳🇴 Norway · Archaeological wonder
The Gokstad Mound (Norwegian: Gokstadhaugen) is a large burial mound at Gokstad Farm in Sandefjord (formerly Sandar municipality) in Vestfold County, Norway.
🇦🇱 Albania · Archaeological wonder
Kardhiq Castle (Albanian: Kalaja e Kardhiqit) is a ruined Ottoman Turkish hill fortress located in Kardhiq, southern Albania.
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Temple complex
The Grand Mosque of Sabilal Muhtadin (Indonesian: Masjid Raya Sabilal Muhtadin), is the city's principal grand mosque.
🇨🇱 Chile · Megalith
Huaca de Chena, also known as the Chena Pukara, is an Inca site on Chena Mountain, in the basin of San Bernardo, at the edge of the Calera de Tango and Maipo Province communes in Chile.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Fremont (900–1200 CE) · Fremont (San Rafael)
Emery Rochester recorded by Gunnerson 1960s, Fremont horned shaman and migration trail.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Aceramic to Bakun Neolithic (c.7000–4200 BCE; Jari horizon) · Mushki → Jari → Shamsabad → Bakun (Marvdasht Neolithic)
Marvdasht Plain Neolithic reference mound (7000–4200 BCE) with Mushki to Bakun sequence near Persepolis.
🇳🇪 Niger · Ancient city
Late Medieval / Tuareg / Songhai · Tuareg (Kel Air) / Songhai tributary
Paired Saharan stations: Agadez (c.1400 Tuareg sultanate capital with 27 m mudbrick minaret) and medieval Takedda copper industrial estate (14th c, Ibn Battuta 1353: 'copper mine of Takadda') 150 km…
🇫🇷 France · Rock art
Bronze Age · Bronze Age
Bronze Age rock-art at Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
